I think the safest thing to do would be to pre-freeze the tempeh, and carry it in a cooler with an ice pack. If you're doing tofu scramble, you probably don't want to pre-freeze the tofu (although I do freeze tofu scramble after it's been cooked), but if you have enough ice in the bag it should stay cool.

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Personally I wouldn't eat rice that's been hanging around for more than a couple of days. In terms of the bacteria that cause food poisoning with rice, the bacillus cereus operates between 10 and 50 deg C, so to be safe you'd need to eat it either very cold at around 5 deg C - and your fridge may not be that cold, and if it is, the rice isn't going to have much flavour - or reheating it to piping hot about 60 deg C, which would be a better option in terms of flavour. Cooked rice freezes really well, by the way, so maybe next time it would be worth cooling it quickly and then slinging it in a bag in the freezer?

rice that's been in the fridge for 7 days. If I do eat it do I heat it loads to kill the germs or eat it cold to not develop more germs? Rice is tricky isnt it?

Reheating may kill some germs, but the issue is that you don't necessarily reheat things very evenly the microwave. On the stove or in the oven is a better option as far as killing bacteria, but I still wouldn't risk it with rice that old. The bacteria in there have had a lot of time to multiply -- they will still grow in the fridge, just more slowly. How sure can you really be that you reheated it hot enough and thoroughly enough to kill the bacteria? Chances are the rice won't taste good if it's 7 days old anyway. Uncooked rice is so cheap, I'd just make it fresh. Ruby Rose has a great idea with the freezing if you want to save some prep time.

I soaked a bunch of dried chickpeas (but didn't cook them) and popped them in the fridge to use later than night. That was at least a week ago. I want to bake them for snacky crunchy chickpeas. They don't smell bad, they aren't slimy or sprouted or moldy.

Okay, for reals. That yellow one is supposed to be a sweet potato. Is it safe to eat? I won't be eating it because sweet potatoes are mega gross, but if you don't want MBM to die, a little assurance would be great!